National River Water Quality Monitoring Seminar

Alas, attached are some pics from the ASMA/DOE River Water Quality Monitoring Seminar, held about two weeks ago at Heritage Hotel, in Ipoh, Perak. Attendees were mostly very senior Department of Environment (DOE) officers, from all over the country (almost every state), including the Director of the Marine and River Water Quality Unit, Tn. Hj. Hashim Daud. Besides, myself, three other distinguished speakers also gave talks at the seminar, including Prof. Dr. Maketab Mohamed (UTM), Dr. Abdul Rani Abdullah (VP of PiCorp) and Mr. Ardi Bakhtiar (Manager of ASMA WQ Dept.). It was a very interactive session, as the attendees posed many technical and scientific questions; we were more than happy to share whatever humble knowledge that we had.

Tn. Hj. Hashim address the participants - Day 1

Participants - Day 1

Dr. Rani giving his lecture - Day 1

Prof. Maketab giving his lecture - Day 1

My lecture (backshot) - Day 2, beginning of the seminar

My session again - Day 2, towards the end.....

(yes, jacket is off again, for mobility :-))

Gift from DOE/ASMA - Day 2

Dr. Rani giving his lecture - Day 3

River Water Quality Modeling Workshop at ENSEARCH

Some pics from the recent water quality modeling workshop we conducted at the Environmental Management and Research Association of Malaysia (ENSEARCH). Participants mostly consisted of environmental consultants, engineers and researchers. Mr. Renjith, my attachment student from the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India also attended the workshop. The first day of the workshop was conducted by Prof. Dr. Maketab Mohamed, focused mainly on QUAL2E, whereas I conducted the second day of the training on QUAL2K. Both of us has a pretty tight schedule that week, as Prof. Maketab had to attend a round table meeting with the Prime Minister in his capacity as MNS President, right after his session finished. I on the other hand was not around on the first day, giving a talk to senior DOE officers in Ipoh, Perak at the National River Water Quality Monitoring seminar (pics to come, hopefully) and the next day after this workshop, I had to be in Putrajaya assisting UTM IBD at their MSc quality improvement program. I will be conducting another workshop on water quality parameters in September at ENSEARCH; watch out for it! Those who are interested to attend, kindly get in touch with the ENSEARCH secretariat.

Participants from various segments of the environmental industry

More Participants

Prof. Maketab with his signature smile :-)

Attentive participants listening to my talk on QUAL2K

(guy in the last row, green shirt is Renjith; all the way from NIO, India to learn modeling)

My jacket was off half way through the workshop (on the chair); for mobility's sake, needed to rid as much weight off my shoulders as possible :-)